A working meeting was held in the Executive Committee of the CIS countries in Moscow.
The meeting was attended by:
- Advisor to the Office of the Chairman of the Executive Committee – Executive Secretary of the CIS – Anatoly Kazakov
- Vadim V. Ganin, General Director of the Business Center for Economic Development of the CIS
- President of the International Women’s Union – Alfiya Amirova
- The editor-in-chief of the online publication “Embassy Life” is Shakirzyanov Marat
Issues of cooperation were discussed at the meeting.
The Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States is a single permanent executive, administrative and coordinating body of the Commonwealth of Independent States, ensuring the organization of the work of the Council of Heads of State, the Council of Heads of Government, the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the Economic Council and other bodies of the Commonwealth.
In its activities, the Committee is guided by the fundamental documents of the Commonwealth of Independent States, treaties concluded between the participating States within the framework of the Commonwealth, decisions of the Council of Heads of State, the Council of Heads of Government, the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Economic Council, and the Regulations.
The CIS Executive Committee organizes its work in close cooperation with the Council of Permanent Plenipotentiary Representatives of the Commonwealth Member States to the statutory and Other Bodies of the Commonwealth and the Commission on Economic Issues under the Economic Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
On April 2, 1999, the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States decided to reorganize the CIS Executive Secretariat, the staff of the Interstate Economic Committee of the Economic Union, the working apparatus of a number of interstate and intergovernmental sectoral bodies (9 of them) into a single permanent executive, administrative and coordinating body – the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The CIS Executive Committee is the legal successor of the CIS Executive Secretariat, the Interstate Economic Committee of the Economic Union, and the working apparatus of a number of interstate and intergovernmental sectoral bodies. Its main functions are to ensure the activities of the Council of Heads of State, the Council of Heads of Government, the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Economic Council, to develop proposals on the strategy of the Commonwealth, legal elaboration of documents, analysis of the implementation of decisions, treaties and systematic informing of the supreme bodies of the Commonwealth, etc.
The Council of Heads of State of the CIS approved by the Protocol of June 21, 2000 Regulations on the CIS Executive Committee.